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During the height of the Iraq war, the U.S. media paid close attention to troop deaths and fatalities, often making casualties among American soldiers leading stories in newspapers and …

Senator Jim DeMint speaking at Steve King's Conservative Policies conference in Des Moines, Iowa. The Republican senator told ThinkProgress that he "doesn't believe collective bargaining has any place in …

A key document that describes the origins of the Bush administration's torture program was just released by the Department of Defense under the Freedom of Information Act. The so-called …

On the road between between Ajdabiya and Brega, an opposition fighter navigates a truck armed with an anti-aircraft gun on the front line near Brega, Libya, April 1, 2011. …

(Photo: billaday / Flickr) Washington - As the Arab world continues to pitch and heave with flashes of popular uprisings here and sparks of brutal crackdowns there, …

Terry Jones, an evangelical minister, at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, on Aug. 18, 2010. (Photo: Chip Litherland / The New York Times) Kandahar, …

Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan - Stirred up by a trio of angry mullahs who urged them to avenge the burning of a Koran at Florida church, thousands of protesters overran the …

Gen. George W. Casey, speaks with students from the Master Resilience Training School, one of the four components of the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program, during a recent visit to …

(Photo: jerry john / Flickr) The economy added 216,000 jobs in March, pushing the overall unemployment rate down to 8.8 percent. The growth was driven entirely by …

(Photo: Dave Hoefler / Flickr) In the February weeks I spent in snowy Madison, Wisconsin, that line of Didion's, the opening of her 1967 essay "Goodbye to …